| 单词 | green dressing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreen dressing green dressing n. Agriculture (now rare) (a) = green manure n.; (b) = green manuring n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > use of other natural fertilizers > other natural fertilizers marl1280 pomacec1450 cod's head1545 buck-ashes1563 bucking-ashes1577 guano1604 greaves1614 rape cake1634 muck1660 wool-nipping1669 willow-earth1683 green dressing1732 bone flour1758 bone powder1758 poudrette1764 bone dust1771 green manure1785 fish-manure1788 wassal1797 lime-rubbish1805 Bude sand1808 bone1813 cancerine1840 inch-bones1846 bonemeal1849 silver sand1851 fish guano1857 food1857 terramare1866 kainite1868 fish-flour1879 soil1879 fish-scrap1881 gas lime1882 bean cake1887 inoculant1916 1732 W. Ellis Pract. Farmer 30 French-Wheat, when sowed to dress the Ground... Let it lie three Weeks or a Month. In this time it will smoak,..like a Dung-hill; and as it is a green dressing, will quickly rot in the Ground. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Pulse [He] prefers millet to every other plant for green-dressing of land, on account of the cheapness of the seed, and the largeness of the stalks and leaves, which must afford a good coat to turn in when ploughed. 1811 Agric. Museum 24 Apr. 327 Clover ploughed in, is a good green-dressing. 1893 Chem. News 3 Mar. 108/2 Green-dressing—the ploughing in of certain green crops—is recommended as a source of nitrogen and as improving the condition of the soil. 1973 S. B. Philpott West Indian Migration iii. 56 The crop land was rotated every year or two, some was fallowed or planted in green dressing, more was used for vegetables and pasture. < as lemmas |
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